Watching...

I honestly hated this movie. It’s better than the theatrical cut, sure. But it’s so drawn out and full of itself.. Also, the 4:3 aspect ratio to preserve “creative integrity” made my eyeballs roll back into my brain.

Jackson

I was only curious about that additional camera they used on Rich.. (on the couch) Looked like the boys bought a new camera/lens maybe? Oh the movie was tolerable in parts. Every time Wonder Woman showed up to that vocal sample from Junkie XL's sample library I burst out laughing

The Watchman Studios

That is the easiest part. It’s spending four hours going, ‘why did they make this decision’ and, ‘why is there a Snyder cult’ that’s difficult.

Kyle McLachlan

A legitimately bad movie. The fact it’s better than the Whedon version only says, ‘this shit is bigger than this one but it’s not as smelly a turd’. That’s it. Those freaking out about how it is and lauding it as an instant classic need to seek professional help.

Kyle McLachlan

I'm so curious about this. I just don't think I could do 4 hours

I liked it...

William Ohmes

Well, thank God, that *was* some kind of improvement. Watched it like a miniseries, which was *so much better* than trying to sit straight through.

Katy

Yeah other than the length, and some really indulgent musical interludes I don't really have any major beefs with it - its far from the greatest thing ever, but it's surprisingly serviceable, and not very Snydery compared with his other stuff

Matt P

It's a "better" "movie" than the original cut - that's the problem. It took a 1/10 absolute trainwreck that was almost fascinating to dissect, if not hilarious to point and laugh at, and turned it into a... 4/10 snoozefest. Literally all that happens is the justice league forms up, resurrects superman, and punches the bad guy, and for some reason known only to Zack Snyder, that takes four fuckin hours. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Elliot

Lmao at all the Stans here circle jerking hate for the Snyder cut. I went in wanting to hate it and it’s pretty good. Lonesome dove is like 6 hours long and people think it’s a damn masterpiece

Mike W

Can we get scientist man to explain everything in this four hours of nonsense?

angryponchos

Zack Snyder's movies give me the impression he's either the greatest idiot or the greatest asshole that ever lived... or both... Well, probably both...

Manuel Johnen

This was the first ZS movie I've seen where I didn't feel like I was looking at the world through the eyes of deeply disturbed, sick an twisted mind - I don't know what it is about his films, he has a way of... sexualizing (for lack of a better term) the violence that makes me really concerned about his sanity - there's generally a meanness to the tone that comes across that is hard to put into words. Other than the scene at the beginning of JL where terrorist man wants to shoot kids, and the sound mix really plays up the screams, and all the glory shots of him switching modes on the gun, it didn't really come across in this one.

Matt P

Then why do you have to ask?

Manuel Johnen

Yeah of course

Andrew Swain

Have you ever seen a Zack Snyder movie...?

Manuel Johnen

What do you mean Rhea?

Andrew Swain

Like, I won't judge what I won't watch, but I hate everything the existence of this film represents.

Rhea

It was better than the original release but this is far from a movie. I don't know what this monstrosity is. Let's say he would have cut it down to 3 hours...still I don't think it would have made anymore money than the other cut did. Anyway...nice to know Joker thinks about jerking off Batman.

Ghost Crusaders

Bro I’m the same way. I like DC characters better than marvel characters as well. I agree there were some weird music choices, but I was all for the slo mo

William Ohmes

You should give it a shot i had a great time. Best DCEU movie and that’s including Shazam and Wonder Woman 2017

William Ohmes

I liked it! The original was a bunch of shit flying around for no reason. Now there’s a bunch of shit flying around for reasons!

John Campbell

Thanks for biting the bullet for us no way I’m watching that .

Chris Barrio

Trust me you should watch it. I had an absolute blast watching it. It’s not like most Snyder movies. It’s not too dark in tone, it’s got some humor, and it’s actually got good characters.

William Ohmes

I kinda loved it...

William Ohmes

I actually had a great time watching it

William Ohmes

Oh My Gooooooddd!

Chaotic Neutral

Holy shit, good luck guys!

Slein

I can totally understand why Cyborg was pissed after the release of the theatrical version.

Crazy that they got Lemmy to voice Steppenwolf

I had no interest in this, and have hated pretty much every Zack Snyder movie since Watchmen (which is still pretty mediocre), but I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by this. The movie is far too long, due in large part to Snyder giving in to some of his worst impulses when it comes to slow motion and tonally weird music interludes (of which I counted at least four), but the character stuff works surprisingly well and what's going on actually makes sense now. As someone who likes the DC characters more than Marvel, I can't say I particularly want Snyder to make more movies with these characters, but part of me is slightly curious about where he planned on taking the story.

So glad you guys are recording yourselves watching it (or so it appears). I am ~2 hours in and have laughed out loud many times. The woman sniffing Aquaman's sweater deserves her own review

Chris

I will NEVER forget how bad those films are.

Brandon Shane

At least the Snyder cut of Justice League makes a lot more sense as a movie. Cyborg was a solid character, I don't know why they cut so much of him from the original. I could have done without the 30+ minutes of Themyscira which seemed like it was added solely to try to capitalize off of the popularity of the first Wonder Woman movie. Also, it seems to me writers for the DC movie/tv universe clearly do not understand that Batman is the real person and Bruce Wayne is just the mask. Less Bruce Wayne and more Batman. And why did he bother using the voice distorter when everyone around either knew or didn't care about his Bruce Wayne alter ego? Unfortunately, I worry that this cut of the movie will make people forget how absolutely terrible Wonder Woman 1984 and Superman v Batman were.

The Pizza King

Hate to admit, but I kinda liked it. Now that I'm typing this here, am worried that I'll be a social outcast on this group...haha

geekay

Oh, the things you suffer for us ...

Jessie Zimmer

I was excited for this film only for the Half In The Bag review that would surely follow.

A VHS fits about 4 hours of footage on it in LP mode. Most VHS media were in the 4:3 format. The Snyder Cut is in 4:3 and about 4 hours long. Mr. Plinkett has a broken VCR. Is Snyder trolling?

Hidde Jansen

You watch to protect the rest of us. You are heroes.

Emily Hall

Well, those LOTR films are extended editions, not director’s cuts. It’s not like Jackson wanted to release those films in theatres but couldn’t. They just include extra stuff from the books that’s interesting but was intentionally left out of the theatrical version for pacing and plot reasons. Very different to releasing a bloated mess and thinking it’s high art.

Sam

Just wait for the snyder cut of aquaman. expected runtime 13.5 hours. Hope you like underwater pod environments!

hENNIFER

Probably could have drastically cut down the runtime if Snyder wasn’t so hard for slow-mo...

I kind of had zero interest in seeing it, but I was pleasantly surprised by a lot of it. I was kind of shocked by how much I ended up not hating Aquaman. I wish that Aquaman was the one in his own movie, but I guess I can't get that now. Oh well. The movie looked stunning too.

Matthew McLean

Oh gawd. I’m so sorry

VHS VCR

I actually enjoyed the hell out of it. 4 hours to me is no different than binging four episodes of a TV show. So it wasn’t an issue for me

Did you guys get in trouble or something? Hashtag thoughts and prayers

Conor

4 hours?! Jeez, I'm going to wait on the HitB now. I'm not a big comic movie fan, but I do have a soft spot for Jack Kirby-created characters like Darkseid. But yeah, at 4 hours, I'll wait until I see what Mike & Jay have to say before investing that sort of time into a movie I'm already iffy about.

Sarzac

I could not believe the aspect ratio. It sets a tone, for sure.

ComicPop

Good lord that film was terrible

Nick Reese

Oh my the 4:3 I had NO IDEA that’s how it was until we watched another review. I was like is this guy pulling my chain?? And then I googled it and it says it’s in 4:3 for “creative reasons” 🤦🏻‍♀️

Jessica

Thanks for taking one for the team. I'm not going to waste my time.

Yarn From Space

They failed so badly at starting their cinematic universe that they are literally redo-ing the movie. That's what this is about (this is not "a treat" for the fans) and I wish this was discussed more in the mainstream discourse.

I like that part in the commentary of this I think, when Mike starts ranting about this becoming the most important thing in our culture. Saving face for all of us when we get to be embarrassed in the future, in the classrooms of elementary schools from the United Federation of Planets.

Juan Calvo

Not these days.

AshesBoomstick

Oh, oh no.. you poor, poor guys. I’ll keep you in my prayers. Stay strong 🙏🏻

VikkyFishwick

A 4 hour blockbuster in 4:3?? It’s definitely to save money on vfx. What an absurd film.

catalin j sullivan

Did you hear about the Little Zack Snyder Watcher that could? He just kept watching along, chuga chugga chugga, woop woop. It was only when the third act ended and the movie kept going and Charlie I mean Zack was like Keep watching KEEP WATCHING DAMMIT that the Little watcher that could blew up and Bubba came out the back, both eyes missing and he said "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!! I CAN'T FEEL MY EYES!!!" and I said "Bubba you ain't GOT NO EYES!!!"

Munchman

Doing the lord's work, thank you for your service

Maureen Vallette

I miss My wife

Hunter Clifton Mann

So glad someone else is watching this to save me the bother!

Maximus Ironthumper

it proves zach snyder needs 4h to make a slightly below average movie

Dr Trash

Mr Plinkett, “My diabetic cat just farted. Oh wait, I don’t have a cat.” Mr Plinkett turns to look into the camera with disgusted ...then farts.

Kostas P

They’re not going to like it, but the unprecented nature of it, with the easy ability to compare to the theatrical cut, will provide them with big budget movie-making talking points.

I stopped at the exact same spot

The new 4 hour movie was amazing. Absolutely nailed it.

Beau

I'm worried about you guys. Nobody should kill himself for the sake of his work. Please, be safe and keep blood pressure and pulse monitors hooked up at all times. Drink plenty of water, take breaks, and don't forget that there's no shame in not finishing. Finally, if you feel that you might be losing consciousness, stop immediately and call 911 for assistance.

Neil Peart, Lord of Drums

I thought it was pretty good for being the dumbest shit ive ever seen

joshkg

Will this episode be in 4:3 aspect ratio? Because making fun of 4:3 aspect ratio is probably the best use for 4:3 aspect ratio. I love you.

Renus Dewberry

everyone is entitled to their own ppinion

19day

I tried. I failed. Miserably. Bailed when Alfred was telling Diana how to make tea because I was already dangerously close to throwing something at the tv and didn't want to follow through.

Lisa

The movie is 16 hours long so they need time to edit and get it up for maximum views.

Ken Harris

I’m 3:17 hours in at this moment. And I have to say [insert joke here].

Lelio Mulas

poor souls!

Peter Varga

The label of a Snyder's pretzels bag has better writing than this movie.

Dirrdevil

4 hours?! Geez. After the whole 4:3 aspect ratio thing I wasn't sure if the running time was a joke or not.

Henry Martyn

Oh, this'll end well.

Connor Martin

Please discuss just how terrible the writing is.

Ugh. The word that kept coming to mind was "unearned". It's like it wanted to be Endgame, bit didn't earn it.

Andy Miesem

hell yeah

Alex Medina

Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it. So far I’ve heard that it’s better but anything at 4hrs is bound to make more sense and have more details then something that was cut down to 2hrs.

Jessica

Turns out more of a bad movie is still just a bad movie.

Jonathan Weiner

Oh no

Steve Can Still Believe

Darkseid IN THE HOUSE!

Matthew Chambers

Over indulging, sure. Unnecessarily long, yep. Completely different movie, yes. It's a pandemic with a dwindling choice of newer things to watch, screw it if the guy wants to make a 4 hour miniseries/not miniseries movie. Sure, Fellowship was a great film...but the 4 hour director cut? Eh, mostly extra bloat, just because he could - same same, but different..but still same.

Aaron Austin

Lol watched it in two separate sittings yesterday. I actually didn't see the other one. Didn't care. Watched this with my bf out of curiosity and now I am BAFFLED by the reviews. But at the same time, how can you give a crucified martyr a bad review on his film when he's been trying to get it released for four years, and his daughter died during production? You don't. You appease the Twitter trolls and crazy Snyder fans so you, too, aren't cancelled. Oh and how about that aspect ratio, guys? Releasing a 4 hour long special-effects filled superhero film in 4:3, when most people have 16:9 tvs. For me personally, I loved the blue and red glares filling the sides of the frames during some of the bigger action sequences. Kill..... Me.....

Rachel Snead

Myself and two other people were able to get within +/- 20 minutes of the two hour mark before turning it off for the night LOL

OH MY GOOOOODDDD

Joe Sposto

Oh god... Stoked for what you’ll have for this one.

Like Charlie and the MTA.

Michael Puttré

the differences in vibe between the two versions of Aquaman walking into the waves scene is probably the best example of joss weadon not understanding the material he had to work with

Andrew Swain

I still can't get myself to do it. But I guess now, I'll have to. I have a set timeline now. Maybe I can watch it in 20 minute chunks. Cleanse my brain, lower the blood pressure, continue. Repeat.

AshesBoomstick

They'll fix Plinketts VCR before they finish watching the snyder cut.

Pedro

Thanks for doing it so I don't have to. Fuck this movie.

Ben

I only sat down for Part 1 yesterday. I don't think I'll ever get used to the aspect ratio, but some of what I was watching was actually compellingish. The Wonder Woman scene was laugh out loud funny though.

Ben Staub

You guys start work at 720a? That's some healthy work ethic right there.

I just hear Plinket saying "Part 5"

Colin

HitB or BOTW?

Raul Valente

Oh yes. Oh. Yes.

Poo In An Alleyway

You know it’s a Zach Snyder movie when Batman threatens to “fucking kill you”

Jonathan Jones

Good. This means I won’t have to.

Will it take 12 years?

SphericalKitten

PLEASE DO A HITB FOR JUSTICE LEAGUE, Im begging you!

hamish smith

You could just watch the opening scene to Blade. It’s better.

Daniel E. Passaro

How are you liking it? I saw it and loved it!

Michael Gussler

Oh you poor fools

Francisco Campoamor

Currently doing the same

Brendan Teskey